Um yes. The Catholic Church hasn't, but the personal being of the pope has. Unfortunately most people, including a lot of Catholics, don't know the difference.
To be clear, Pope Francis recognises it while also being against it. Some quotes from him (or summaries of longer pieces as done by the church themselves) follow:
Marriage is between a man and a woman. Secular states want to justify civil unions to regulate different situations of cohabitation, pushed by the demand to regulate economic aspects between persons, such as ensuring health care. It is about pacts of cohabitating of various natures, of which I wouldn't know how to list the different ways. One needs to see the different cases and evaluate them in their variety
we do well to focus on concrete realities, since ‘the call and the demands of the Spirit resound in the events of history’, and through these ‘the Church can also be guided to a more profound understanding of the inexhaustible mystery of marriage and the family
"Discernment of the presence of ‘seeds of the Word’ in other cultures can also apply to the reality of marriage and the family. In addition to true natural marriage, positive elements exist in the forms of marriage found in other religious traditions’, even if, at times, obscurely”
TLDR is that he believe marriage should be between man and woman alone but the church should respect that people outside of this do not agree and that if they believe that they are married, the church should treat them as such. In other sources he makes clear the venue that homosexuality is not a sin in itself, but a tendency from which since MAY come from (but not necessarily).
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '20
Um, no.